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Total number of records: 311

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Archives307
Art items2
Books and printed items2

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society247
Brotherton Collection35
University Archive9
Student Newspapers6
English Literature6
Business Archives5
University Art Collection2
Quaker Collection1
Ripon Cathedral1
Joseph Wood Collections1

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textile industry5
letters5
business records3
manuscripts, english -- 17th century -- texts.1
jews -- england -- london -- history -- sources.1
lectures and lecturing1
politicians1
woollen and worsted manufacture1
thirty years' war, 1618-16481
textile workers1

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Yorkshire10
Ganton; Yorkshire East Riding5
Wakefield; Yorkshire West Riding5
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding3
Aysgarth; Yorkshire North Riding3
Kirkby Malzeard; Yorkshire West Riding3
Great Ayton; Yorkshire North Riding2
Eshton; Gargrave; Yorkshire West Riding2
Gomersal; Birstall; Yorkshire West Riding2
Halifax; Yorkshire West Riding2

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Russell, John2
Northend Family, Fl 15th Century-19th Century1
Norcliffe Family of Leeds, West Yorkshire1
Nicholls Family, Fl 15th Century - 19th Century1
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde1
Pawson Family of Leeds, West Yorkshire1
Radcliffe Family1
Marshall, John (1765-1845)1
Ramsden Family, Fl 15th Century-19th Century1
Marshall Family1

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Archive Collection:
MS Dep. 1973/1
1862-1866
Papers relating to the fund raised in Leeds for relief of distress in the Lancashire cotton districts caused by the American civil war In the autumn of 1862, the American Civil War began to affect t...
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD10
15th-19th century
Deeds and copyhold admittances, mainly relating to Eggborough, Kelfield, Kellington, Sherwood and Whitley and the families of Awnby [or Anby], Girlington, Jackson, Laycock and Morritt 15th-19th centur...
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD104
1572-1861
Includes inventory of Oswald Clark of Horton 16th century; enclosure award for Horton [Selside, Shaw Park and Lamb Pasture] 1791; steward's account book, Thomas Heselden for the Rev Dr Thomas Wilson o...
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD106
17th century-18th century
Includes nine deeds relating to Lamb Close, Rawmarsh 1783-1798 and probate of will of Mary Beale of Rotherham, 23 Feb 1714/5 and will of Francis Denner of Rawmarsh, 27 Aug 1770
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD11
1720-1818
Also included deeds relating to Barnby, Bowes, Hardwick, Liverton, Leeds, Sigston, Topcliffe
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD110
1793-1812
Archive Collection:
YAS/MD110
11th century-18th century
Including deeds relating to Tockwith windmill 1641-1683 and survey of manor of Wilsthorpe taken by Soloman Swale of Wetherby 1618
Archive Collection:
YAS/MD111
(13th century)-18th century
Including copy documents relating to Tockwith windmill 1227 and inquisition post mortem of Guy de Wilstrop 1520
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD115
1558-1832
Relating to Austhorpe, Bingley, Carlton Miniott, Copt Hewick, Darley, Grewelthorpe, Kirkby Malzeard, Littlethorpe, Masham, Mickley, Ripon (hospital of St John the Baptist), North Stainley, Staveley, S...
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD116
1739-1814
Comprising petition from the citizens of Halifax against the repeal of the act establishing a court of requests for the collection of small debts n.d. [1776]; deeds of George Wood and John Broadhead r...
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD117
17th century-19th century
Relating to Heseldon or Heseltine family of Brackenbottom, Horton-in-Ribblesdale and Sothwell, Nottinghamshire
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD12
13th century-20th century
DD12/I - Calverley papers, 13th-18th century Relate mainly to estates of the Calverley and Blackett families in Calverley, Eccleshill, Farsley, Otley and Pudsey. Includes deeds 13th-18th century, som...